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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






2. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






3. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






4. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






5. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






6. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






7. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






8. A strong pause within a line.






9. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






10. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






11. A short saying with a moral.






12. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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13. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






14. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






15. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






16. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






17. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






18. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






19. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






20. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






21. The person who 'tells' the story.






22. The main character of a literary work.






23. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






24. What a story or play is about.






25. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






26. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






27. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






28. A poem that tells a story.






29. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






30. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






31. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






32. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






33. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






34. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






35. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






36. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






37. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






38. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






39. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






40. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






41. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






42. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






43. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






44. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






45. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






46. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






47. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






48. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






49. The selection of words in a literary work.






50. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.